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Rumi Yoshida(吉田 瑠美)
BirthMay 28, 1983 (age 43)
Place of BirthShibuya, Tokyo, Japan
OccupationPicture-book author
Painter
Writer
TitlesTourism Ambassador for Tadami, Fukushima Prefecture
Visiting Professor, Kyoto Nishiyama Junior College
Representative, Kyoto Chinese Martial Arts Association
Websitehttps://www.rumiyoshida.com/
Iinstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/rumi__yoshida__/

Rumi Yoshida（吉田 瑠美; born May 28, 1983 ）is a Japanese picture-book author, painter, and writer. She is from Shibuya, Tokyo, and graduated from the Department of Art at Aoyama Gakuin Women’s Junior College.

Biography

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Rumi Yoshida was born in Shibuya, Tokyo. Film director and screenwriter Michihito Fujii is her younger brother.

After entering Aoyama Gakuin Kindergarten, she spent time in New York because of her father’s work. After returning to Japan, she transferred into the first grade of Aoyama Gakuin Elementary School. In 2003, she graduated from the Department of Art at Aoyama Gakuin Women’s Junior College. Her move to Kyoto prompted her to begin drawing again after a long hiatus, and in 2017 she began working as a picture-book author.[1]

In 2023, she was responsible for producing paintings and murals appearing in the Japan–Taiwan co-produced film 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days, directed by Michihito Fujii.[2]　Soon after the film’s release, she received an email from a junior-high-school girl living in Tadami, the hometown of the film’s protagonist, saying, “I would like you to paint a picture at an unmanned station in my town.” This led Yoshida to create murals at stations along the Tadami Line. The murals feature plants and animals emblematic of the Tadami area, including Japanese serows, ruddy kingfishers, snow camellias, and Lilium rubellum.[3]

Regarding her approach to picture books, Yoshida has said that she values immersing herself in her subject—as though she has “become” it—and continuing to draw until its distinctive character emerges.[4]　When creating The Donkey’s Story (2020), which depicts the inner struggle of a donkey walking with a heavy load on its back, she spent three days at Onomichi Donkey Farm observing donkeys from morning until night. Through the texture of their coats, she sought to convey subtle nuances of the donkey’s emotions.[5] The Boy and the Camphor Tree (written by Keigo Higashino), published in 2025, turned into an actual picture book a fictional picture book that appears in Higashino’s bestselling novel The Goddess of the Camphor Tree, which had reached sales of 200,000 copies.[6]

In addition to her work as a picture-book author and painter, Yoshida writes and publishes essays and stories. In July 2025, she became the first Japanese person invited to participate in the National Museum of Taiwan Literature’s writer-in-residence program, and in August of the same year she organized the event Taiwan Prism. In October of that year, KBS Kyoto Radio launched Taiwan Prism: Rumi Yoshida’s Taiwan Stories. Through these and other activities, she has also worked to build connections between Taiwan and Japan.

Recent Activities

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In addition to her work as a picture-book author and painter, Rumi Yoshida has, since creating the artwork featured in the film 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days, stayed in Taiwan, Vietnam, and other places, producing and exhibiting murals and paintings that, in her words, “contain the stories of the places themselves.” Her activities have expanded from artwork created for the film to murals along the Tadami Line, as well as the publication of a picture book in Taiwan. Her interactions with local residents in connection with these activities, as well as exchanges between communities in Japan and Taiwan, have also been covered by newspapers and television.

Artwork in 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days

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18×2 Beyond Youthful Days depicts the brief relationship between Jimmy, a Taiwanese high school student, and Ami, a Japanese backpacker whom he meets in Taiwan, interwoven with the present-day story of Jimmy, now 36, traveling through Japan eighteen years later as he retraces those memories.

Ami dreams of traveling around the world and creating “pictures that only I can draw.” The film features her illustrated diary, portraits, mural, postcards, and other drawings. Yoshida has said that, in creating these works, she was asked to “draw the scenery Ami saw by becoming Ami.”[7]

Of particular importance in the film is the large mural that Ami paints in a karaoke bar in Tainan, where she lives and works while gradually covering a wall with images. According to Yoshida, the dogs, cats, streetscape, light, and other elements in the mural were based on things she actually saw in Tainan. The central seaside scene depicts the people with whom Ami worked at the karaoke bar. Yoshida initially did not include Ami herself, but later added her beside Jimmy, imagining that Ami would want to “leave a piece of herself on the wall of Karaoke Kobe, where everyone would continue spending time together.”[8]

After Ami returns to Japan, she passes away of illness, but the pictures she created remain. In the film’s present-day timeline, Jimmy confronts his memories of Ami through a picture postcard she sent him eighteen years earlier and begins a journey to her hometown of Tadami in Fukushima Prefecture. When he visits Ami’s family home, he finally learns the circumstances of her illness and, through a illustrated diary she left behind, encounters aspects of Amiy’s experiences and feelings that he could not have known when he was eighteen.

Throughout the film, individual pictures recur in different contexts: they are “drawn,” “seen,” “left behind,” and “seen again.” The Tainan mural evokes the time Ami spent with her friends at the karaoke bar, while, eighteen years later, the postcard and illustrated diary she left behind serve as clues that lead Jimmy back into the past.

In this way, the artwork within the film does more than simply establish Ami as an aspiring artist. As the story unfolds, it first connects Ami, a Japanese woman, with Jimmy and her Taiwanese friends; it then connects Jimmy in the past with Jimmy in the present; and finally, it connects someone living in the present (Jimmy) with someone who is no longer there (Ami).

Since its Taiwanese premiere on March 14, 2024, 18×2 has been released across Asia, including Japan and Vietnam; by June of that year, it had attracted more than 2.7 million admissions and grossed over ¥2.5 billion.[9] The artwork featured in the film also drew audience responses. One reviewer wrote that they “got goosebumps” at the moment when the picture of Ami and Jimmy releasing a lantern together appeared at the end of Ami’s illustrated diary, adding, “I really felt the power of the pictures, and Ami’s warm illustrations moved me to tears.” [10]

Murals along the Tadami Line

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Following the release of 18×2, Yoshida began creating murals in Tadami, which is presented in the film as Ami’s hometown. The project originated when a female student at Tadami Junior High School, moved by the film, emailed Yoshida: “I am Ami’s junior. Please paint a picture at an unmanned station in my town.” Yoshida responded to the request and approached Tadami Town, which in turn consulted Fukushima Prefecture, setting the mural project in motion.

The project took shape against the backdrop of rural depopulation, with the Tadami Line operating at a loss and the region seeking to attract tourists as part of its revitalization efforts.[11] However, as reported by the media, the project itself originated in the junior high school student’s wish and Yoshida’s response to it, while the decision to create a mural was inspired by the film 18×2 .[12]

The mural at Aizu-Shiozawa Station, created in September 2024; the mural at Aizu-Gamō Station, created in May 2025; and the mural at Tadami Station, which was being produced in 2026, all draw on flora and fauna characteristic of Tadami. The Aizu-Gamō Station mural, for example, includes “dogtooth violets, cherry blossoms, and adonis flowers that Yoshida saw while walking around the station, as well as Japanese serows and the blue-and-white flycatcher, a wild bird found in the town.”[13] A local elementary-school pupil remarked, “I thought it was reproduced really well—the little rabbits and everything.”[14] Pupils from Tadami Elementary School helped apply the white base coat; junior-high and high-school students spoke with Yoshida on their way home from school; and local residents joined her in waving to Tadami Line trains and brought her food.[15] [16] Yoshida described the resulting relationships by saying, “The local people are warm, and the mountain vegetables, rice, and other food are delicious. There is an atmosphere in which everyone, from children to older people, freely shares ideas and works together to build the town.”[17]

A railway enthusiast later wrote an article about “going to see the mural at Tadami Station,”[18] while a Taiwanese travel website introducing locations from 18×2 described Yoshida’s mural as incorporating “local characteristics of Tadami” and expressing “a different beauty from the mural in the film.”[19] Yoshida’s mural project, undertaken by the artist who created the film’s artwork, has thus provided an occasion for the act of “drawing” depicted in 18×2 to move into the real world, bringing together the artist and residents, the local community and railway and film fans, and fiction and reality.

The picture book Azu de Yaoyi and its permanent exhibition at Beimen District Library, Tainan

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Michihito Fujii, the director and screenwriter of 18×2, has said that his paternal grandfather was from Taiwan and that, when he first visited Taiwan at the age of 26, he felt, “I have been here before.” He described “a strange feeling” in which “the smell of Taiwan, the air, and the atmosphere as a whole felt very familiar and yet unfamiliar at the same time.”[20] He subsequently visited Taiwan frequently, thinking that if he were to make an international co-production it should be there, an ambition he eventually realized with 18×2. [21]

Yoshida, Fujii’s elder sister, deepened her own engagement with Taiwan after creating the artwork for the film. In July 2024, while 18×2 was still enjoying an extended theatrical run, Yoshida was selected as a writer in residence at the Taiwan Literature Base, a program administered by the National Museum of Taiwan Literature. In her application, she proposed to regard Taiwan as her most important ancestral root because her grandfather was from Taiwan and to create work based on the experience of living there.[22] She became the first Japanese participant selected for the residency.

In July 2025, while staying in Taipei as a writer in residence, Yoshida published the Traditional Chinese-language picture book Azu de Yaoyi (《阿祖的搖椅》) in Taiwan. The book begins with Yoshida’s own childhood memories. As a young girl, she loved sitting on the lap of her great-grandfather as he relaxed in a rocking chair. In a language unfamiliar to her, he would quietly sing about “a beautiful island where flowers and fruit grow abundantly and shine in the sunlight.” When old friends visited, he spoke with them in a language the girl could not understand. After they left, he would invariably become wistful and take her to look out at the sea. In the picture book, the rocking chair eventually becomes a boat, and the great-grandfather carries the girl and her younger brother, Michihito Fujii, on his lap across the sea to the shore of his birthplace.

There are gaps in Yoshida’s childhood memories, and she can no longer ask her great-grandfather what he was thinking. In Azu de Yaoyi, her memories of him are layered with the family history she learned later and are depicted as an imagined journey to Taiwan, her great-grandfather’s homeland.

As Yoshida writes in the book’s afterword, her great-grandfather was a local notable who served as head of the seaside village of Beimen in Taiwan during the period of Japanese colonial rule, and during the war he sent his son to Japan to study medicine. That son, Yoshida’s grandfather, was later placed on a “blacklist” by the Kuomintang regime, which established one-party rule in postwar Taiwan, and was therefore unable to return to Taiwan. Yoshida’s great-grandfather instead moved to Japan, and both men ultimately died there without being able to return to their homeland.[23][24]

Around the time Azu de Yaoyi was published, Yoshida also translated into Japanese a picture book based on the life of a person imprisoned as a political prisoner in postwar Taiwan, publishing it as Koguma no Lala wa Utau (Little Bear Lala sings). 　Yoshida wrote that through the translation she first learned in depth about the political repression under martial law known as "the White Terror", and came to understand that the inability of her great-grandfather and grandfather to return to Taiwan was connected to those historical circumstances.[25]

At an event held as part of her Taiwan Literature Base residency, she appeared in a dialogue titled “Conveying Historical Memory and Hope through Picture Books” with Wu Yi-zhen, the author of Koguma no Lala wa Utau, and said that “translation is not merely the replacement of one language with another, but an act of carrying Taiwan’s memories out into the world and conveying the universal value of human rights.”[26]

On January 9, 2026, Yoshida donated all of the original illustrations for Azu de Yaoyi to the Beimen District Office in Tainan. The originals were subsequently placed on permanent display at Beimen District Library. At the presentation ceremony, Yoshida said that she had depicted “the nostalgia and longing for home of my great-grandfather, who was unable to return.” Beimen District Chief Lin Jian-nan said that the donation “not only brings the story of Yoshida’s family full circle, but also carries the story across time and passes it down through generations, conveying the love and nostalgia that, under the particular circumstances of the time, could not be spoken yet remained deeply rooted in people’s hearts.” [27] The donation and permanent exhibition were reported by several Taiwanese media outlets, including United Daily News, Liberty Times, China Daily News, China Times, and Great Tainan News.

Since July 2025, Yoshida has also been involved in exchanges between Tadami and Taiwan in her capacity as a Tadami tourism ambassador. In July 2025, after Tainan suffered severe typhoon damage, she called for donations under the slogan, “From Ami’s hometown of Tadami to Tainan, the city of Jimmy’s memories: sending our ‘Jiayou!(Fight!)’ support.” [28][29]

On January 26, 2026, she accompanied Tadami mayor Isao Watanabe on a visit to the Beimen District Office, which was reported by several Taiwanese national and local media outlets. [30]　On July 7 of the same year, Tadami and Beimen signed a friendship-city agreement. Liberty Times reported the event under a headline stating that “a Japanese painter with Taiwanese roots traces her ancestry and forges a connection: Tainan’s Beimen and Fukushima’s Tadami become friendship cities.”[31]

The creation of artwork for the film, the murals along the Tadami Line, and the publication of Azu de Yaoyi and exhibition of its original illustrations are different forms of activity. Newspaper and television coverage of Yoshida, however, has documented how, in each case, murals and paintings that “contain the stories of the places themselves” have generated new relationships between people, between people and places, and between places, giving rise to new stories in the real world.

Selected works

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Picture Books Written and Illustrated by Rumi Yoshida

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  • Watching the Rain (Shogakukan), July 2026
  • Great-grandfather’s Rocking Chair (Yushan Publishing, Taiwan), August 2025 — in Traditional Chinese
  • The Donkey’s Story (Kokudosha), May 2024
  • Push and Go (edition.f), May 2024 — bilingual Japanese–English picture book
  • My Sled Ride (Fukuinkan Shoten, Chiisana Kagaku no Tomo), December 2022
  • Always Beside You (Kokudosha), September 2019
  • Am Always (Kokudosha), July 2019
  • Someday I Will Too (Kokudosha), June 2019
  • Soap Bubbles After the Rain (Fukuinkan Shoten, Chiisana Kagaku no Tomo), May 2019

Picture Books Illustrated by Rumi Yoshida

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  • Sumo of Mouses, an Akita folktale (Suzuki Publishing), August 2025
  • The Boy and the Camphor Tree, written by Keigo Higashino (Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha), May 2025 — Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean editions published
  • Rice Balls in the Ruins, written by Tomoyoshi Urushibara (Kokudosha), March 2020
  • Akari-chan’s Route to School, written by Tomoyoshi Urushibara (Kakiuchi Publishing), March 2017

Picture Books translated by Rumi Yoshida

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  • Little Bear Lala Sings, written by Wu Yizhen and illustrated by Liao Peizi (Kokudosha), July 2025 — translated from Traditional Chinese

Essays

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  • Ruru on the Roof (edition.f), October 2022

Murals

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  • Tainan, Taiwan — mural appearing in the film 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days, 2023
  • Aizu-Shiozawa Station, Tadami, Fukushima Prefecture — The Scenery Ami Saw, vol. 1, 2024
  • Aizu-Gamō Station, Tadami, Fukushima Prefecture — The Scenery Ami Saw, vol. 2, 2025
  • Oozora Kindergarten, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — A Walk Under the Blue Sky, 2025
  • Oozora Kindergarten, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — Morning Walk and The Way Home at Dusk, 2026
  • Tadami Station, Tadami, Fukushima Prefecture — The Scenery Ami Saw, vol. 3, 2026

References

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  1. ↑ ""The Path to Becoming a Picture-Book Author, Guided by Connections with People: Alumna Rumi Yoshida." [人との繋がりが導いてくれた絵本作家への道〈校友・よしだるみさん〉]". Aogaku Plus[アオガクプラス] (in Japanese). 2023-06-15. Retrieved 2026-09-02.
  2. ↑ ""Interview with Picture-Book Author Rumi Yoshida, Who Created the Paintings Drawn by Ami, Played by Kaya Kiyohara, in the Film 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days: How She Felt When She Received the Offer from Her Younger Brother, Director Michihito Fujii, and Behind the Scenes of the Production. ["映画『青春18×2 君へと続く道』清原果耶が演じたアミが描く絵を担当した絵本作家、よしだるみにインタビュー。弟である監督・藤井道人からオファーを受けた心境と制作の裏側]". So-en ONLINE[装苑ONLINE] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2026-09-02.
  3. ↑ ""Artist Rumi Yoshida Brings Color to Tadami Station with a Mural: 'I Want to Create a Work That Will Remain in People's Memories'; Completion Scheduled for November." [只見駅壁画で彩る 画家・吉田瑠美さん 「記憶に残る作品に」 １１月完成予定]". Yomiuri Shimbun[読売新聞] (in Japanese). 2026-08-07. Retrieved 2026-09-02.
  4. ↑ ""Drawing 'What Makes a Thing Itself': Interview with Rumi Yoshida."[「そのものらしさ」を描く――吉田瑠美インタビュー]". Monthly Art Plus[[月刊美術プラス] (in Japanese). 2025-11-30. Retrieved 2026-09-02.
  5. ↑ ""Books Are Friends: Everyone Has Their Own Struggles — The Donkey's Story Depicts 'Compassion.'" [本はともだち：みんなもいろいろあるんだ 「思いやり」描く「ロバのおはなし」]". Mainichi Shimbun[毎日新聞] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2026-09-02.
  6. ↑ ""First Children's Picture Book Born from Keigo Higashino's 'Camphor Tree' Series! The Camphor Tree Guardian, the Bestselling Paperback of 2023, Surpasses One Million Copies in Japan!"[東野圭吾「クスノキ」シリーズより初の子ども向け絵本誕生！ 2023年最も売れた文庫本の『クスノキの番人』が国内累計100万部突破！] | Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha[実業之日本社]" (in Japanese). 2025-03-17. Retrieved 2026-09-02.
  7. ↑ ""Interview with picture-book author Rumi Yoshida, who created the artwork drawn by Ami, played by Kaya Kiyohara, in the film 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days: how she felt when she received the offer from her younger brother, director Michihito Fujii, and behind the scenes of the production." 〔映画『青春18×2 君へと続く道』清原果耶が演じたアミが描く絵を担当した絵本作家、よしだるみにインタビュー。弟である監督・藤井道人からオファーを受けた心境と制作の裏側〕". So-en ONLINE〔装苑ONLINE〕 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2026-09-15.
  8. ↑ "Interview with picture-book author Rumi Yoshida, who created the artwork drawn by Ami, played by Kaya Kiyohara, in the film 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days: how she felt when she received the offer from her younger brother, director Michihito Fujii, and behind the scenes of the production." 〔映画『青春18×2 君へと続く道』清原果耶が演じたアミが描く絵を担当した絵本作家、よしだるみにインタビュー。弟である監督・藤井道人からオファーを受けた心境と制作の裏側〕". So-en ONLINE〔装苑ONLINE〕 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  9. ↑ "Greg Hsu and Kaya Kiyohara's 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days Surpasses 2.7 Million Admissions Across Asia," ORICON NEWS.〔シュー・グァンハン×清原果耶『青春18×2 君へと続く道』アジア動員270万人突破〕". ORICON NEWS〔オリコンニュース〕. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  10. ↑ Inc.Tsumiki〔株式会社つみき〕 (2024-05-18). "Filmarks review of 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days by usagi. 〔映画『青春18×2 君へと続く道』のusagiさんのネタバレレビュー | Filmarks〕". filmarks.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  11. ↑ "The Tadami Line is a regional treasure': sightseeing train marks two years since full reopening, while challenges remain… Fukushima." 〔「只見線は地域の宝」全線再開から2年祝う観光列車運行 一方課題も…福島 〕". TUF NEWS (in Japanese). 2024-10-02. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  12. ↑ "Mural appears at an unmanned JR Tadami Line station: picture-book author responds to junior-high-school student's wish."〔JR只見線の無人駅舎に壁画登場 中学生の願い聞き、絵本作家が制作〕". Kahoku Simpo〔河北新報オンライン〕 (in Japanese). 2025-06-03. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  13. ↑ "Mural appears at an unmanned JR Tadami Line station: picture-book author responds to junior-high-school student's wish."〔JR只見線の無人駅舎に壁画登場 中学生の願い聞き、絵本作家が制作〕". Kahoku Shimpo〔河北新報オンライン〕 (in Japanese). 2025-06-03. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  14. ↑ "The Tadami Line is a regional treasure': sightseeing train marks two years since full reopening, while challenges remain… Fukushima."「只見線は地域の宝」全線再開から2年祝う観光列車運行 一方課題も…福島". TUF NEWS (in Japanese). 2024-10-02. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  15. ↑ "Picture-book author Rumi Yoshida: Tadami Station mural nearing completion—Tadami streetscape, Japanese serow, himesayuri lilies… dressed in spring."〔絵本作家の吉田瑠美さん 只見駅舎の壁画、完成間近 只見の町並み、カモシカ、ヒメサユリ…春の装い〕". Fukushima Minpo〔福島民報デジタル〕 (in Japanese). 2026-07-02. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  16. ↑ "Fukushima: mural completed on JR Tadami Station building; picture-book author depicts town scenery, connection born from film location." 〔福島 JR只見駅駅舎に壁画が完成 絵本作家が町の風景描く 映画のロケが縁〕". Kahoku Shimpo〔河北新報オンライン〕 (in Japanese). 2026-07-08. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  17. ↑ "Tadami Station brightened by mural: painter Rumi Yoshida aims for 'a work that remains in people's memories'; completion planned for November."〔只見駅壁画で彩る 画家・吉田瑠美さん 「記憶に残る作品に」 １１月完成予定〕". Yomiuri Shimbun〔読売新聞〕 (in Japanese). 2026-08-07. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  18. ↑ ""Going to see the mural at Tadami Station."〔只見駅の壁画を見に行く。〕". Toritetsu Oyaji no Blog〔鳥鉄親父のブログ〕 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  19. ↑ 鄭雅之, 編輯. "Travel Japan with Greg Hsu! Visiting Fukushima's Tadami, a filming location for 18×2, with hidden scenic spots revealed."〔跟著許光漢玩日本！福島只見町「青春18×2取景地」踩點，隱藏版秘境曝光。 | Japan Walker〕". LINE TODAY (in Chinese). Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  20. ↑ "Michihito Fujii and John Hsu discuss 18×2: Jimmy, this is the kind of adult we became." 〔藤井道人、徐漢強談《青春18×2》：Jimmy，我們變成了這樣的大人〕". The Reporter〔報導者〕 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 2024-03-19. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  21. ↑ "Japan–Taiwan co-production 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days: producer discusses the path to live-action adaptation and the appeal of 'travel."〔日台合作映画『青春18×2 君へと続く道』 プロデューサーが語る、実写化までの道のりと「旅」の魅力〕". Ebisu-hats〔恵比寿発、〕 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  22. ↑ "2024 Taiwan Literature Base writer-in-residence selections announced, with writers from 11 countries including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, the Netherlands, Vietnam, the Czech Republic, Singapore, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and Canada."〔2024台文基地作家駐村結果公布 名單橫跨台港日荷越捷星英美澳加11國 - 自由藝文網〕". Liberty Times〔自由時報電子報〕 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 2024-07-18. Archived from the original on 2025-02-15. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  23. ↑ Yoshida, Rumi (2025). Azu de Yaoyi〔阿祖的搖椅〕 [Rocking Chair of Great-Grandfather] (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Yushan Press〔玉山社出版事業股份有限公司〕. ISBN 9789862944370.
  24. ↑ For the career of her great-grandfather Chen Sanji（陳三吉）, see the résumé included in the Taiwan Governor-General’s Office Archives, “File of Applications for Designation as Alcohol Retailers, 1943”; for the career of her grandfather Chen Minxiong（陳敏雄）, see Wu Xiuzhu（呉修竹）, edited by He Yilin（何義麟）, A Postwar History of Taiwanese in Japan: The Memoirs of Wu Xiuzhu (Sairyusha, 2018).
  25. ↑ Yoshida, Rumi (2025). “On Lala’s Story,” Koguma no Lala wa Utau [Litter Bear Lala Sings] (in jp). Kokudosha〔国土社〕. ISBN 978-4337062535.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  26. ↑ ""Conveying Historical Memory and Hope through Picture Books." 〔絵本で伝える歴史に記憶と希望〕". Koguma no Lala Special Page. July 13, 2025. Retrieved September 16, 2026.
  27. ↑ "Japanese Painter of Taiwanese Descent Rumi Yoshida Returns to Her Great-Grandfather's Hometown in Beimen, Tainan, and Donates Original Picture-Book Illustrations"〔台裔日本畫家吉田瑠美回阿祖故鄉台南北門 捐贈繪本手稿〕". Liberal Times〔自由時報〕. Retrieved September 16, 2026.
  28. ↑ ""Request for donations for Tainan typhoon relief (18×2 × Tadami Town Support Project, Part 13!)."〔台南台風被害への救援金ご協力のお願い（「青春18×2」×「只見町」応援プロジェクト第13弾！）〕". Tadami Town website〔只見町公式ホームページ〕 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  29. ↑ ""Fukushima's Tadami Town delivers relief funds to Tainan: a bond forged by a co-produced film." 〔福島只見町、台南市に救援金 合作映画が結んだ縁：北海道新聞デジタル〕". Hokkaido Shimbun,〔北海道新聞デジタル〕 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  30. ↑ ""Azu de Yaoyi brings mountains and sea into resonance: mayor of Tadami, Fukushima, visits Beimen."〔《阿祖的搖椅》牽起山海共鳴 日本福島只見町長參訪北門 - 寶島〕". China Times〔中時新聞網〕 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 2026-01-27. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  31. ↑ "Japanese painter with Taiwanese roots traces ancestry and forges connection: Tainan's Beimen and Fukushima's Tadami become friendship cities."〔台裔日本畫家尋根牽線 台南北門、日本福島只見町締盟友好城市 - 政治 - 自由時報電子報〕". Liberal Times〔自由時報電子報〕 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 2026-07-07. Archived from the original on 2026-07-08. Retrieved 2026-09-16.

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